Rothenthurn Castle
The Castle Rothenthurn is located above the small village on the southern slope of the Insberges in the town of Spittal . It is under monument protection ( list entry ).
history
The castle was a fiefdom of the Counts of Ortenburg , later the Counts of Cilli and the Counts of Görz-Tirol . The first verifiable owner was Hans Kreutzer in 1478. In the middle of the 16th century, the castle was owned by the Khevenhüller family , who left it to the castle keeper Ehrenholdt Eschey. In the 18th century, the owners were the Eineter and Perscher trade families. In 1882 the castle was owned by the Normann-Ehrenfels family. The current owner, the Pereira-Arnstein family, runs an accommodation business in the castle.
Building description
The oldest part of the complex is the middle wing called the “Red Tower”, the core of which probably dates back to the 11th century. An underground corridor led from him to the "Maximiliansburg", a castle stables between Molzbichl and Rothenturn. Otherwise, the building was mainly erected in the 16th and 17th centuries; the extensive complex is already shown at Valvasor .
The elongated building consists of several elongated two- and three-story tracts. A roof turret rises on the central wing . The coat of arms of the Khevenhüller is placed above the Renaissance portal in the west wing. The main portal on the north side of the Red Tower is a component from the 16th century that was revised in 1882 during a historicizing restoration. The Khevenhüller coat of arms can also be found in the blasted segment gable.
Castle chapel
The chapel in the eastern main wing is dedicated to St. Barbara . The three-bay, groin-vaulted room was built in 1644 by Ehrenholdt Eschey and frescoed in 1737 under Matthias Ferdinand Eineter. Water damage brought an older depiction of St. Sorrow to the fore. On the altar from 1710 the coronation of the Virgin is shown in plastic. On the side are the statues of Saints Barbara and Dorothea .
To the north of the castle is a grave building for Count Konstantin Normann-Ehrenfels († 1882) in the form of an arbor open on three sides.
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 691 f.
- Georg Clam Martinic: Castles & Palaces in Austria. Tosa-Verlag, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85001-679-1 .
- Hermann Wiessner, Margareta Vyoral-Tschapka: Castles and palaces in Carinthia. Volume 3. Hermagor, Spittal / Drau, Villach . Birken-Verlag, Vienna 1986 (2nd edition), without ISBN, p. 117.
Web links
- Entry via Rothenthurn (Drautal) to Burgen-Austria
Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 49.1 ″ N , 13 ° 35 ′ 6.1 ″ E